Quotes on Something

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

I do not want to continue cycling until I am 35. I want to make something else out of my life, too. There are other things besides a bike and racing.

If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.

I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Politics matter, but politics can't come first. If politics come first in your life, something is wrong with you. It's a sad thing.

If you're going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they're capable of and the world as it should be seen.